Bob Ippolito wrote: > You REALLY should read the docs.
Of course I should, and I did. I also did my floundering until I identified the problem before asking for help here. My comment here was bringing up the question of how, on OS-X, we want to recommend people deal with having installed scripts on their $PATH. However, this whole discussion started because I thought we wanted to have an easy way for newbies to find and install packages on OS-X. This has not be easy for me so far, and I am neither an OS-X nor a *nix newbie. If it was just me, I'd just run the setup.py scripts that come with the packages and be done with it, but I want to help out the community, as well as having a standard approach to point my colleagues to. > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall The only thing it says there about installing the easy_install script is: "An easy_install script will be installed in the normal location for Python scripts on your platform." You've seen me on this list for years, and I have NEVER noticed /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin before. I have had scripts installed in /usr/local/bin. (probably from mpkgs put together by Bob) So, the question is: What should "standard Practice" be for handling scripts installed by easy-install (and distutils, I suppose). I see a couple options so far: * Advise people to put: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin on their PATH. * Have people put symlinks to scripts in there in their PATH. * Follow Charlie's suggestion: Create a ~/.pydistutils.cfg file with: --------------------------------------------- [easy_install] script_dir = /usr/local/bin --------------------------------------------- in it. By the way, I didn't see any mention of the script_dir value in the Easy_Install doc. None of those options are particularly newbie-friendly. * Change the default script_dir in the "official unofficial" Framework builds to /usr/local/bin That's more newbie-friendly, but I'm sure has lots of other problems. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
